Man, the Prime Culprit for the Receding Glaciers

The greenhouse gasses are related to human actions, which continue until the drastic incidence of the melting of the glaciers. Nevertheless, climate is very complex and research into its regulation mechanisms hasn’t ceased; however, more and more scientists are agreeing with the theory that global warming doesn’t seem to just be a natural oscillation of the climate, but also man’s aggression on nature: the use of fossil fuel and irresponsible industrial activities.
In the meantime, the strict relationship between the beginnings of retrocession of the icebergs and the increase in the emission of greenhouse gasses – which is the fundamental cause of the planet’s increase in temperature – has been observed.
For example, without seeming to be an alarmist, if the Antarctic should completely melt (which occurrence is highly unlikely during this century), its 25.4 km2 of ice would elevate the sea level by 57 meters, which would provoke a disaster with inestimable consequences. It’s enough to know that if the sea level were to rise by only one meter some 150,000 km2 of land would be flooded, affecting 180 million people, since the costal areas are the most populated of the terraqueous planet.
Antarctica and Greenland bear ice caps that contain 98% of the fresh frozen water of the Earth. At the moment, the strips of these regions that have already melted, together with similar phenomena with other glaciers and the thermal expansion of the oceans, have reached an increase in the sea level of a little less than centimeters (eight inches) between 1870 and 2001.
Therefore, the Principality of West Antarctic insists on the reduction of greenhouse gasses in order to stop global warming, and appeals to the sensitivity and conscience of the majority of the industrialized countries that don’t yet comply with the measures adopted by the Kyoto Protocol.